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William M. Crosby has been practicing law for over forty-nine years. For the past 39 years, Mr. Crosby has specialized in employment law, primarily representing employees in discrimination, sexual harassment, wage, and hour claims, and wrongful termination based upon breach of express and implied contract and public policy claims. Mr. Crosby is recognized as one of the state’s top employment law attorneys. He was honored in 2002 as the “Top Gun'' Employment Lawyer of the Year and in 2011 as the “Top Gun” Business Litigation Lawyer of the Year from the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. He has tried over 75 employment law cases to verdict in the Superior Court of California and in Federal Court and has been a member of ABOTA (Advocate status) since 1986. 

Mr. Crosby was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1971 and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has been a member of the Employment Law Panel of the American Arbitration Association in Orange County and served on the Consulting Group to the California State Bar Committee on LegalSpecialization for Certification of Labor and Employment Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association; the Orange CountyBar Association, where he served as a board member from 1988 through 1991; the State Bar of California, for which he served as a Probation Officer and Referee from 1978 through 1994; the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, where he served as a board member from 1983 through 1986; the California Employment Lawyers Association, for which he was a founder and board member from 1986 through 1994; the Consumer Attorneys of California; and the National Employment Lawyers Association. Mr. Crosby was a member of the State Bar Labor and Employment Section Executive Committee from 2013 to 2017. Mr. Crosby was a “Super Lawyer” from 2007 to 2017 and is recognized in The Best Lawyers in America.  

Mr. Crosby has written and lectured to attorneys for the California Continuing Education of the Bar. He is the author of “Presenting the Plaintiff’s Case,” Wrongful Termination Practice, CEB1986, and the CEB Action Guide “Handling a Wrongful Termination Action.” He has written articles on employment law and trial practice for the Consumer Attorneys of California Forum, the Orange County Bar Association Orange County Lawyer magazine, the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association newsletter, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal.  

Mr. Crosby received his A.B., cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley (1967) and his J.D. from Loyola Law School (1970).